June Elizabeth

My sister had her first child this past week. She went in to be induced but shortly after she got there they ended up doing and emergency c section. Mom and baby are doing well and back at home. June sleeps all the time, except when she is eating and mom is getting use to changing lots of diapers.

2009 Flowertown Festival 10K Run

This is Josh's second time to participate in the 10 K run. He ran it in less than an hour (55.47) this year which was an improvement from last year by about 7 minutes. This is definitely not a past time I would enjoy but he really has a lot of fun with it.

What is a King Cake?

I can't believe how many times I have heard this question in the last week. I guess I have taken it for granted the culture of Mardi Gras that I grew up with. To me when this time of year comes around I think of parades, beads ("throw me something mister") and king cakes. I mean we even get out of school and work for it. So I gave had to try and explain what a king cake is which was actually a lot more difficult than I thought. I have it explained it as a round cake (but not one made with cake mix), it has a hole in it, icing with different colored sprinkles on top.... see my problem. If you have never actually seen one this description is just plain confusing. Well I thought I would post a picture on my blog for those who couldn't visualize it, probably due to my confusing description. Oh and did I forget to mention it has a baby in it!

Christmas 2008

My Pictures start with New Years Eve and work backwards to Christmas Eve. Okay so let me first explain this first picture. Josh and I were sitting on the couch at our friends house and I was trying to take a good picture of the two of us. So I would hold the camera in front of us and take the picture look at it and decide I didn't like it and I would tell Josh what to do for the next picture. So after about six tries I give him further instruction for how to pose and when I turned the camera around to see how the picture came out this is what I saw. I laughed so hard I couldn't catch my breath. I have to say it was the highlight of the night. We made sushi that night and we had a great time hanging out with our friends.

A few days after Christmas we went to the James Island Festival of Lights to drive through and see the lights and to roast marshmallows and make smores. I haven't done this since I was little so it was a lot of fun. I know I can't handle as much sugar as I could when I was younger b/c after 3 smores I was done.

Vicki (Josh's mom) sent this to me. I thought it was really cute.

Christmas night we went to our friends and played Apples to Apples. This is a fun game that can get some pretty interesting answers.

Christmas Eve was our annual party at the Tucker's. We had a lot of fun but were exhausted from our Christmas Eve service at church.

Ranger's First Christmas

Merry chirstmas

SNOW in Louisiana

There was a rare snowstorm in La. Here are some of the pictures my sister took.

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with friends. Josh started off the day with our first annual Turkey Bowl. Some of the guys from church started a game at 8 in the morning and the ground was still frozen. I stayed at home and started cooking. I make my broccoli salad, Paula Dean's Creamy Mac and Cheese (cooks in the crockpot), homemade potatoes and Peanut Butter Fudge bars. We had a lot of food and dessert. We are grateful that we have such great friends to spend our holiday with.

Beach Pics

We went with the Durdles last weekend to the beach to try and get some nice pics. It was actually too sunny and the pics didn't come out like we wanted but we may try again next weekend. Here are some of the pictures we did get.

Getting ready for the cold

So I got a little worried about cold weather coming and wondering if Ranger would go outside. I found this little jacket at Target for 2.50.

Here is his reaction to his fitting.

Fall Festival

This past Sunday was our Fall Festival. There was a lot of work that was involved and I actually had a lot of fun but was completely exhausted when it was over. We cooked for about several hundred people and on top of that Josh and I had additional jobs.

Worship Team

My Job
Josh's Job

Let the Games begin. Scott challenged Josh to a race. So here is the play by play

There off...and in the process almost knock over a kid!

Josh tries sliding into home.

But alas....Scott is victorious

Where has the time gone???

A recent visit from my mom and George. We went out to Oscar's...good food.

Ranger is a great travel dog. When we went home this summer he spent most of the time in his crate, part of the time in my lap and part on the time on the arm rest with his head on Josh.

This is Ranger with his cone after his surgery.

Josh and I went with the youth to Carowinds, which is an amusement park. At the event we heard Skillet, Casting Crowns and Family Force Five.

Okay, so I have been really bad at updating the blog recently. There are a couple of reasons. No. 1 : I thought I had lost my camera cord to the computer but finally found it sitting next to the computer (so no more excuses). No. 2: I have been really busy at work No. 3 I have been spending too much time on Facebook and not on my blog. So now that I am back and committed to updating my blog here are a few pictures that let you know what we have been up to.

This is a video to show some of the tricks I have taught Ranger. I have taught him verbal commands and hand signals. He catches on pretty quick. I think I taught him most of these things when he was around 3 months. He is around 9 months now. Just this last month we got shake, which he got after one day of working with him.